Thanks, I am aware that's an option, the only problem with it is if you go looking for magazines on other instances, you can't both browse all magazines and also easily subscribe to them as you go. Using the search tool you get links tailored to your home instance.

Fedia.io and others do eventually show up if you scroll down a lot, kbin social just dominates the general list. You can use the domain name to quickly weed out kbin.social stuff. Props to the designer for making the filter real time.

Note that it looks to me from experimenting that the filter uses only the side panel and title for keywords, so instances and magazines that don't have a great description of their purpose may not get hits based only on the actual posts.

Ah. Thank you. I will go and hide in shame now.

The only thing I have to say in my defence is that it's not super obvious that that's there, and at least now the information is available to anyone that comes looking.

It seems to me though that it should just search both by default and not leave kbin as hidden by default. when I searched for instances the fact that no kbin servers came up is what told me maybe they weren't supported.